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Why would anyone want to be a doctor when they could be a trader?

So lets compare the two...

Doctor = 5-6 years degree. 30K as first year doctor upto 100K as fully qualified doctor at the age of around 36. You have to work all over the country - getting jobs in London is very difficult. So mostly you're in Liverpool or Norwich. Loads of exams. You have to pretend to like smelly, dirty, ungrateful people. You keep getting shafted by the government.

Trader = 3 years degree. 40K+ first year. 100K by 2-3 years. Upto millions if you're good. You get to work in London. Basically all the hedge funds are in Mayfair. You drive nice cars, have nice things and shag hot women. You do whatever the **** you want.

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Who really wants to have a "nice car" in these narrow roads of Britain ?
It takes a certain type of personality to be a money driven trader, and I find it tends to be those who would "shag hot women" and exaggerate the Gordon Gekko lifestyle, which you're so happily fuelling.
Blood, people dying, wearing a white coat = Thrill!

(And all that saving lives and stuff etc.)
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Money grubbing scum of the earth vs. people with a moral backbone trying to help others and not get a rimjob from any oik with a few bob ... oh that is a woefully hard choice.
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Original post by 4EX
So lets compare the two...

Doctor = 5-6 years degree. 30K as first year doctor upto 100K as fully qualified doctor at the age of around 36. You have to work all over the country - getting jobs in London is very difficult. So mostly you're in Liverpool or Norwich. Loads of exams. You have to pretend to like smelly, dirty, ungrateful people. You keep getting shafted by the government.

Trader = 3 years degree. 40K+ first year. 100K by 2-3 years. Upto millions if you're good. You get to work in London. Basically all the hedge funds are in Mayfair. You drive nice cars, have nice things and shag hot women. You do whatever the **** you want.


Do you actually know what a Doctor is?
Lets start with your first screw up it isn't just prospective doctors who are burried in exams, you think any IB worth its salt would even look at you without you having excelled at every exam you've even done?
Do you think traders get to play with money without being nice to some people?
London has a fair few Hospitals princess.
The Hedgefunds are all over the place, not just Mayfair.
I doubt you'd know a hot women if one sat on your face with comments like that.
Tell that to the SEC, FCA, the justice dept, the UK prosecutors etc.
You're not very smart with this stuff are you sunny boy.
Imagine a world with no doctors though... you'd be screwed if you ended up in a car crash in your nice car.
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So doctors don't get to shag nice women? Pretty sure women would rather go for someone with brains...
Original post by UWS
So doctors don't get to shag nice women? Pretty sure women would rather go for someone with brains...


Well tbf he did use the word 'hot' instead of 'nice'. So I'm guessing he meant dim gold diggers.
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Doctors don't lose their jobs as easily. They give back more to society and save lives.
Who gives a ****?

The odds are pretty good that the OP isn't even involved in trading but is a bored pre-fresher with an A level in business studies. For the love of Christ.

(Incidentally, both of the figures you've listed for doctor's salaries are wrong in relation to the stage of training which you've stated. There's a surprise).
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Original post by Trapz99
Doctors don't lose their jobs as easily. They give back more to society and save lives.


If a Doctor makes a screw up they'll be fired... People tend to attach more importance to cock ups when lives are in the balance.
Original post by champ_mc99
Blood, people dying, wearing a white coat = Thrill!

(And all that saving lives and stuff etc.)


****, GOMERs, wearing the same shirt as last night = Reality
Doctors have job security, traders don't have any at all.

And really this is a false dichotomy, no one interested in medicine would be a good fit for trading et vice versa.

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Because traders aren't allowed to push drains into peoples chests via a scalpel incision, nor could they restart someones heart at 3am in the morning.
Original post by 4EX

Doctor = 5-6 years degree.

Congratulations there's at least something true here :woo:

30K as first year doctor

Carry on ..
upto 100K as fully qualified doctor at the age of around 36

1st of all it depends on the type of doctor you are. And secondly, at the age of 36 ?! C'mon. Go revise your Wikipedia page

You have to work all over the country

YAAAAAY :jive:

Spoiler



getting jobs in London is very difficult.

Yes, and it works for all the jobs possible :rolleyes:

So mostly you're in Liverpool or Norwich.

Omg you can see the future ?? Pls tell me how many years my cat is gonna live :colondollar:
Loads of exams.

Welcome to reality lovely <3

You have to pretend to like smelly, dirty, ungrateful people.

Like you ?

Spoiler


You keep getting shafted by the government.

:beard:

Trader = 3 years degree. 40K+ first year. 100K by 2-3 years. Upto millions if you're good. You get to work in London. Basically all the hedge funds are in Mayfair. You drive nice cars, have nice things and shag hot women


http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iszwuX1AK6A

OP... Mum never told you not to watch movies after 8pm ? That's sleeping time :console:

You do whatever the **** you want.

:sigh:
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Might be of a surprise to you, but not everyone who goes down medicine is in it for the money.
Because I want to keep my soul and pursue my passion for science, learning throughout my life and having some impact on someone's life. I want to do a meaningful job where I can say I helped someone because of my knowledge. When I graduate and specialise I want to go abroad and volunteer and give medical aid to a country where they dont have a healthcare system like ours, the kind of experiences you gain as a doctor and what you go through is one of a kind. Yes there are long hours, yes it can be *****y at times, yes there are tonnes of exams, but at the end of the day no job is perfect. Bankers have long hours as well, the exams i take when j specialise will be in topics that interest me. Not even for a day would I trade being a doctor for working in a soul less office looking at numbers and figures all day.
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Trading is hell of a lot riskier than being a doctor, plus when you use leverage in your trades it makes the risk even worse.

I invest a lot (£25K in the financial markets) and I know the highs and lows of winning and losing money. When you make £600 in a 4 week period for doing nothing, you can get a real kick out of it. When you lose the same amount, you feel the world is crumbling on you.

It's always better to invest for the long term, than to place short term bets. The markets have a natural tendency to rise. Also it is usually better to be long than short, being short can lead to infinite losses and usually being short is reserved for day traders (as markets correct back up).
Though I must agree there is nothing as exciting as watching markets rally or crash, you see human psychology in it's full force. The market has never been efficient, it has always been driven by fear and greed. When you see mass panic selling, it is fear taking over and when you see bubbles forming its because of absolute greed.

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